Optometrists Have More Prestige than Money

ARTICLE BY: David Squires
09 November 2015

Survey shows the profession to be comparatively underpaid.

The Business Insider website identifies optometry as one of 19 prestigious careers that don’t pay as well as might be popularly thought. With an average salary of $113,000 a year, says the article, optometrists fall well short of dentists, “who undergo a similar amount of training,” and make $170,940.